The Jonathan Galindo meme features a man wearing a distorted, unsettling mask that resembles the Disney character Goofy. While the images originated in 2012 from the work of makeup artist Samuel Canini, also known as Dusty Ghost, they gained viral notoriety around 2020 as part of a 'creepypasta' urban legend. The figure was falsely associated with a dangerous online challenge similar to the Blue Whale game, where anonymous accounts would purportedly send threatening messages to teenagers. Despite its dark and controversial origins, the meme is now frequently used in an ironic or self-referential way to represent 'cursed' imagery or the feeling of being watched by something deeply uncomfortable on the internet.